{"product_id":"9780892553068","title":"Blue Venus: Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eBlue Venus\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Russ Spaar explores the intimate relationship between the sensual and the sacred. Her nocturnal poems weave themselves into the very fabric of private fervor—lyric, sexual, spiritual—beginning with \"Dusk\" and continuing on until \"Dawn.\"Fierce and giving, Spaar's exquisite verse isolates essential moments of vulnerability and wonder. A series on insomnia—in the voices of some notable insomniacs—is among the most moving extended sequences in recent memory. Elsewhere, she traces poetry back to its primordial roots—prayer, lullabye, mourning, exaltation. Propelled throughout by a resolute belief in the relationship between the human and the cosmic \u003ci\u003eBlue Venus\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a brilliant new star in poetry's firmament\" (Carol Muske-Dukes). \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003eLisa Russ Spaar\u003c\/i\u003e directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia. The recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, she is the author of two poetry chapbooks and \u003ci\u003eGlass Town\u003c\/i\u003e, a full-length collection; and the editor of \u003ci\u003eAcquainted with the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of poems about insomnia. Her poetry has appeared in many periodicals, including \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009346289904,"sku":"9780892553068","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780892553068_p0.jpg?v=1763856222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780892553068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}